X3D Authoring tools | Armand Rousso

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X3D A free ISO standard XML

• Armand Rousso

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Whats the future?

• Web 3.0 ??
• The Web ain't just for 2D any more !

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Web 3D

• What is it?
• Combination of two powerful forces
• the internet
• 3D graphics
• The result interactive, realtime 3D graphics
  delivered over the web with applications in
• online gaming
• CAD, product demos, education, virtual tourism,
  real estate, and interior design

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Technology driving web 3d

• X3D (eXtensible 3D Graphics)Third Generation
  Web3D Standard
• ISO open standard for (Web-enabled) interactive
  3D
• Started in 1995 with VRML 1.0
• VRML 2 or VRML 97
• X3D now and in the forseable future
• Aims to overcome the shortcomings of VRML

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x3d

• ARCHITECTURE

Img courtesy3d image processing standards and
formats
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X3D Features
HARDWARE INDEPENDENT
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X3d Features (2)

• Backward compatible with VRML
• Modularized
• Improved APIs, more language/object model
  bindings (e.g. DOM) and many clarifications to
  event model for better conformance
• Extensible
• MPEG-4 has streaming interactive 3D using VRML

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Support

• Encodings supported
• XML,VRML Classic, Binary compressed
• File formats supported(jpg, png, gif, cgm,wav,
  midi,GeoSpatialreference frames)
• Protocols(http, Distributed Interactive
  Simulation (DIS)
• Languages(Java,ECMAScript,Preliminary work on
  C/C bindings)

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X3D Authoring tools

• Commercial
• VizX3D www.vizx3d.com
• Open-source
• X3D-Edit www.web3d.org
• VRML to X3D translator ovrt.nist.gov/v2_x3d.html
• Exporters
• for Maya, 3DStudio (under development), Blender,
  MilkShape www.web3d.org

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X3d What is it for the web?

• Light weight plug-ins for browsers
• FluxPlayer, Xj3D , Octaga, BS Contact
• Visual integration with existing web browsers
  (IE)
• Data integration with standard web infrastructure
  (XML)
• An open way to build on-line worlds,3D
  documents
• Highly scalable
• Interoperable

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Conclusion

• Factors enabling X3D growth
• Royalty free open source
• Sharing between applications
• Availability of authoring tools and environments
• Easily understandable standard
• X3D offers a way to do more cool things on the
  web- Something we all want!!

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Questions?
THANKS ?
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X3D suports

• 3D graphics
• Polygonal geometry, parametric
  geometry,hierarchical transformations, lighting,
  materials and multipass/multi-stage texture
  mapping
• 2D graphics
• Text, 2D vector and planar shapes displayed
  within the 3D transformation hierarchy
• Animation
• Timers and interpolators to drive continuous
  animations humanoid animation and morphing
• Spatialized audio and video
• Audiovisual sources mapped onto geometry in the
  scene
• User interaction
• Mouse-based picking and dragging, keyboard input